The CINOO Blueprints Vol. 05: True Agency
Status: The Architect of Identity (Breaking the Faked Naming) Identity: The Architect's Core Setting: 1988, Seoul, South Korea (The Tent Factory) I. The Irony of a Given Name High-performance machines—a precision-engineered car or a flawlessly designed product—undergo years of rigorous investment and testing. Only after their essence is proven do they earn a name. But with a human being, the process is reversed. We are given a name before anyone knows who we are. We are forced to inhabit a label before our Identity has even begun to form. For eleven years, I lived under a name I didn't earn, in a role defined by a house I didn't choose. I was an effect looking for a cause. This was the "Faked Naming" that governed my early years—a blueprint drawn by someone else's hand, forcing a pre-defined Status upon me before I could build my own. II. The Tent Factory and the Olympic Dream 1988 Seoul City Hall and Gwanghwamun during Olympic era ...